Extracurricular Reflection- Buddy Powers

Today I was reading Psalm 139, and reflecting on the passage "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." I could not help but envision the character Aslan, terrifying but that's what makes him great, as Mrs Beaver told Susan. The Christian concept of God as worthy of fear and equally worthy of praise is a paradox worth considering. What kind of being could provoke these two qualities? Certainly, Aslan is a worthy example. It is right to fear him not only because he is a lion but because he possesses a powerful and mysterious magic. Rather he is that magic, and he appears and works in unpredictable ways.
After reading Psalm 139 and meditating on God and Lewis's Aslan, I thought of another quality that also makes them worth fearing that often goes unmissed. Both beings ask for complete sacrifical faith from a person in their mysterious ways. Pslam 139 says "How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand." The Psalmist acknowledges that God's ways are uncomprehendible to their mortal mind, their temporal perspective. Yet, it is trusting in God's perspective and the wild paths it can lead a follower on, that require all of that persons faith. Likewise, Alsan is a character of abstraction and of powerful action who's followers are relentlessly faithful.